Roof For Root Cellar

This created an extremely strong structure.

Roof for root cellar.

The perfect location for a root cellar is nestled into an existing soil bank in a well drained location 10 to 20 yards from your house. The arches are 1 2 inch plywood pressed into dadoed grooves in the 2 4 s. Root cellars need to be several feet underground to maintain a consistent temperature and humidity. While you may be tempted to leave the roof of your root cellar exposed to use as a patio or to put an outbuilding on top of it this is usually a terrible idea.

It is backed into the earth which helps to keep your vegetables nice and cool all year long. The green roof root cellar. Only two sides are just concrete. While you can attempt to design the roof yourself it would be best to discuss roof form capacity and formation with a trained engineer.

The floor is dirt crush. The cellar described in the seven steps is a traditional earth root cellar. I built the form in the shop then dismantled it. They built this structure out of cordwood and created a green roof too.

Build the form for the roof. All walls are concrete with 2 feet of dirt on the concrete roof. Without the dirt on top of them they won t function well. Cement blocks are ideal for root cellar walls but you can get creative with old tires or some other supportive material.

This root cellar is very unique and beautiful to look at. Ideally the door should face north to keep out the sun s. This winter the coldest in the root cellar has been 2 celsius 28 4 f when it was our coldest outside at 17 celsius 1 4 f. We just built a root cellar into the hill bordering our carport concrete wall.